The Montreal Olympics : an insider's view of organizing a self-financing games / Paul Charles Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Paul Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee--History.

Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee.

Olympic Games--(21st : 1976 : Montréal, Québec).

Olympic Games.

Olympics--Planning.

Olympics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics were the riveting games the world had ever seen. This title offers an insider's perspective on how this complex, expensive, and politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Olympic Aspirations

3. Doing the Research

4. Beginning the Work

5. Making the Plan

6. 1974 and the World Cycling Championships

7. 1975 - Like Clockwork

8. First Seven Months of 1976

9. Eye of the Beholder

App. A. Financial Statements of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Olympic Games

App. B. List of PAPS, January 1976.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612867002

9780773582590

0773582592

9781282867000

1282867008

9780773576568

0773576568

OCLC:

759101528